- The two men arrested on Sunday as part of the RAF manhunt are at large again.
- Contrary to what was originally stated, these were not formally arrests, as a spokesman for the lead state criminal office in Lower Saxony made clear.
- The “deprivation of liberty measures” were carried out to establish identity. An LKA spokeswoman had previously told the German Press Agency that two men had been temporarily arrested.
- The extent to which the people are connected to the RAF search is the subject of the investigation.
During the operation on Sunday morning, shots were fired by emergency services in connection with a door being opened, an LKA spokeswoman said previously. There were no injuries during the operation. In addition to the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office, the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Berlin police were involved. The operation began around 7:30 a.m. in a commercial area on the corner of Markgrafendamm and Persiusstrasse.
Now it is said that after identity checks have been completed, no person is no longer in custody. It was not initially announced how many people were checked in total during the operation in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The suspicion that the two ex-RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg were staying there was therefore not confirmed.
Former RAF member caught on Monday
Former RAF member Daniela Klette was captured in Berlin on Monday. The police subsequently published current mugshots of Burkhard Garweg.
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Legend: Burkhard Garweg in a mugshot. LKA Lower Saxony
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Legend: Burkhard Garweg with his dog in another mugshot. LKA Lower Saxony
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Caption: Burkhard Garweg again in a third mugshot. LKA Lower Saxony
Like Daniela Klette, who was arrested in Berlin on Monday, Ernst-Volker Staub and Garweg belonged to the third generation of the former left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction RAF.
During their active time, the then Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen (1989) and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1991) were murdered and Herrhausen’s driver was seriously injured.
The unsolved murders of the Red Army Faction (RAF)
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Legend: Hanns Martin Schleyer After the murder of employers’ president Hanns Martin Schleyer, the RAF “Siegfried Hausner Command” never revealed the murderer. Six weeks after the kidnapping, Schleyer’s body was found in Alsace in October 1977. The second RAF generation wanted to free imprisoned RAF founders, which the German government rejected. (Image from 1974) (KEYSTONE / AP Photo
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Legend: Alfred Herrhausen Mysteries remain even after the murder of Alfred Herrhausen, head of Deutsche Bank. It is unknown who blew up his armored limousine in Bad Homburg on November 30, 1989. The “Wolfgang Beer Command” of the third generation of the RAF has become known. Investigations had to be stopped due to lack of evidence. (Image from 1989) Imago Images / Thomas Imox
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Legend: Siegfried Buback It is unclear who killed Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback and two companions on April 7, 1977. As their company vehicle stops at a traffic light, two terrorists from a motorcycle fire at the car with automatic weapons. The “Ulrike Meinhof Command” of the second generation of the RAF is committed to the crime. (Image from 1977) IMAGO Image / Sven Simon
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Legend: Karl Heinz Beckurts The physicist and Siemens manager Karl Heinz Beckurts was killed with a bomb near Munich on July 9, 1986. The third generation RAF “Mara Cagol Command” is responsible for the crime. Who was behind it remains unknown to this day. The suspected Horst Ludwig Meyer was shot dead in Vienna in 1999. (Image from 1985) IMAGO / Wolfgang Maria Weber
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Legend: Detlev Karsten Rohwedder Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, head of the Treuhandanstalt (THA), was shot dead in his home in Düsseldorf on April 1, 1991. The sniper, who is still unknown to this day, hits him with a rifle bullet from 63 meters away at his desk. The RAF “Ulrich Wessel Command” claims responsibility for the attack and is considered one of the last RAF murders. Keystone / EPA, HARTMUT REEH
For decades, the RAF was the epitome of terror and murder in the west of still divided Germany. In 1998 it declared itself dissolved. Burdock, Staub and Garweg are also wanted for a series of later cash-in-transit robberies.